Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > War: 389 Films to Rent on DVD
- Battle For Haditha (2007)
- Dir. Nick Broomfield
Feat. Elliot Ruiz, Yasmine Hanani, Matthew Knoll
- No ordinary Iraq war flick, this powerful dramatic feature from the inscrutable Nick Broomfield proves no less fearless and 'realistic' than his…
- Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman…
- Tom Hanks spearheads this crisp, ever–timely political sideswipe, about a real–life Texas congressman who, together with the financial…
- Closing the Ring (2007)
- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton…
- Richard Attenborough–directed romance set both in the '40s and present–day, following the wartime history of a ring and an unbreakable…
- Eichmann (2007)
- Dir. Robert Young
Feat. Thomas Kretschmann, Troy Garity, Franke Potente…
- Middling account of Adolf Eichmann's confessions as the architect of Hitler's plan for the final solution. German Kretschmann is strong in the title…
- In the Valley of Elah (2007)
- Dir. Paul Haggis
Feat. Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon…
- Calculated military mystery from the director of CRASH, concerning an out–of–touch dad (Jones) searching for his missing son who has gone…
- Joy Division (2007)
- Dir. Reg Traviss
Feat. Ed Stoppard, Tom Schilling, Bernadette Heerwagen…
- Ed Stoppard, son of Sir Tom, stars as a young German boy who becomes a KGB agent in this ambitious wartime saga that sweeps from WWII to swinging,…
- Katyn (2007)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Żmijewski, Pawel Malaszynski
- Andrzej Wajda cements himself as Poland’s greatest director with this late–career triumph, a war story addressing the eradication of some…
- Kite Runner, The (2007)
- Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Khalid Abdalla, Homayon Ershadi, Shaun Toub…
- The ravages of Afghanistan and its effect on an American 'refugee' forms the basis of Khaled Hosseini's best–selling book, here given due…
- Lions for Lambs (2007)
- Dir. Robert Redford
Feat. Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise
- A contemporary 'hot potato' issue is tackled from political, academic, militaristic and journalistic viewpoints, drawing an ultimately powerful…
- Little Traitor, The (2007)
- Dir. Lynn Roth
Feat. Alfred Molina, Ido Port
- Coming–of–age drama about a spirited young Israeli boy and his unlikely friendship with a British sergeant in Palestine in…